hypervirtual

English

Etymology

hyper- +‎ virtual

Adjective

hypervirtual (not comparable)

1. Making use of computer simulation or other artforms to produce larger-than-life or surreal effects.
   • 2004, Yehuda E. Kalay, Architecture's New Media, →ISBN:

     The challenge is to blend these two opposite needs — not to stifle cyberplaces by making them too hyperrealistic while at the same time not making them hypervirtual to the point of renouncing all sense of place.

   • 2010, Kenneth King, Writing in Motion: Body—Language—Technology, →ISBN:

     In his inimitable transference(s) of materials (found memorabilia; bygone relics; delicate, poignant objects; chipped paint; granulated or vermiculated wood; clay pipes; colored, prismatic cocktail glasses, etc.), the dancing dialectical counterpoints between real and unreal intimate and reflex hypervirtual perspectivities (perspectives of, and within, perspectives).

   • 2016, David Tollerton, Biblical Reception, 4: A New Hollywood Moses, →ISBN:

     Yet this verisimilitude remains rooted in the material world in interesting ways that undermine the assumption that the special effect is always already hypervirtual and merely computer-generated.

2. Having no physical or tangible presence but extreme or exaggerated influence.
   • 2001, Neil Spiller, Young blood - Volume 71, Issue 1, page 15:

     The systems of data-driven forms are oriented towards a smoothing of the corporate field and an integration into the contemporary need for fluid flexibility, transience and hypervirtual mobility.

   • 2011, K. Gerstenberger, J. Braziel, After the Berlin Wall: Germany and Beyond, →ISBN:

     In September 2008, however, the world woke up to one massive global hangover as it became indisputably clear that the inebriate 1990s had resurfaced as twenty-first-century crises—those of laissez-faire, unregulated, hypervirtual capital, proliferative deficit spending, speculative and derivative-based financial investments, megacorporate bailouts, rapidly escalating unemployment, increasingly expendable labor, and the radically widening gaps between rich and poor the world over.

   • 2013, JO Clark, “Aesthetic Experience, Subjective Historical Experience and the Problem of Constructivism”, in Journal of the Philosophy of History, volume 7, number 1:

     In the case of the painting, and via the phenomenology of its framing, we “enter into the two-dimensional depiction of a three-dimensional space, and we enact with it “as if ” it were real; the relation is ideomotor and hypervirtual.

3. (physics) Pertaining to spin orbitals of the complementary subspace (orthogonal to all closed-shell orbitals and all virtual orbitals).
4. (mathematics, of a virtual double category) Having additional cells with nullary target.
   • 2015, Seerp Roald Koudenburg, “A double-dimensional approach to formal category theory”, in arXiv‎^[1]:

     In detail: to a monad $T$ on a hypervirtual double category ${\mathcal {K}}$ several hypervirtual double categories $T-{\mathsf {Alg}}_{(v,w)}$ of $T$-algebras are associated, [...].